WRITING
My work has been published in the Santa Fe Writers Project, McSweeney's, Communication Arts, Paper, Cultural Studies, The Rumpus, Your Impossible Voice, Seattle Weekly, and elsewhere. I am currently working on a novel and a collection of critical essays about the environment.
academic WRITING
Smith, Nancy. “Beyond Coexistence: Annihilation & New Imaginaries for Multispecies Futures” in Eco-Futures: A Companion, Editors: Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Simon Bacon, Peter Lang, Oxford, forthcoming 2026.
Smith, Nancy. “Animal Agency: Translating Theory into Design Practice” in Computing Technology, Animal Welfare and Human-Animal Relations, Editors: Clara Mancini and Annbelle Beaver, Springer Animal Welfare Book Series, forthcoming 2026.
Smith, Nancy. “Present/Future Objects: Creating Material Knowledge in Speculative Design” in EduCHI ‘24 Proceedings of the 6th Annual Symposium on HCI Education, ACM, June 2024.
Maceli, Monica, Nancy Smith, and Gatha Bhakta. “Incorporating Unanticipated Uses of Generative AI into HCI Education” in EduCHI ‘24 Proceedings of the 6th Annual Symposium on HCI Education, ACM, June 2024.
Smith, Nancy. “Emotional Bookmarks: Data Physicalization and the Language of Literature” in dh+lib, April 2024.
Smith, Nancy. “Data Quilts: Exploring Environmental Data Through Textile Art,” in Our Environment (Vol 2), Data Science by Design, May 2023.
Smith, Nancy. “Smart Bee Houses: Designing to Support Urban Pollination” in ACI ‘21 Proceedings of the 8th Annual ACM Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction. ACM, 2021.
Ertl, Tanja, Konstantin Aal, Franziska Tachtler, Laura Scheepmaker, Nancy Smith, Douglas Schuler, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Volker Wulf, and Claudia Müller. “Ethical Future Environments: Smart Thinking about Smart Cities Means Engaging with its Most Vulnerable” in The 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies, Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies, 2021.
Qaurooni, Danial and Nancy Smith. “Grounded Speculations: A Method, a Case Study, and Some Questions” in 4S Annual Meeting: Good Relations: Practices and Methods in Unequal and Uncertain Worlds, Society for the Study of Social Science, Toronto, October 2021.
Smith, Nancy and Danial Qaurooni. “The Inclusion Zone: Grounded Speculations in Chernobyl” in Proceedings of the ‘20 Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Conference. ACM, 2020.
Smith, Nancy, Shaowen Bardzell, and Jeffrey Bardzell. “Designing for Cohabitation: Naturecultures, Hybrids, and Decentering the Human in Design” in Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM. 2017.
Miles, Christopher and Nancy Smith. “What Grows in Silicon Valley? The Emerging Ideology of Food Technology” in the Ecopolitics of Consumption. Eds. H. Louise Davis, Karyn Pilgrim, and Madhudaya Sinha. Lexington Books, 2015.
BOOK REVIEWS
Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene, by Lesley Head in Ikhtilaf, Journal of Critical Humanities and Social Studies, December 2017.
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing in Your Impossible Voice, April 2016.
“Cultivating the Technological Imagination” (Anne Basalmo’s Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work) in Cultural Studies. Vol 29, Issue 5-6. 2015.
Scrapper by Matt Bell in Your Impossible Voice, November 2015.
Sidewalks by Valeria Luiselli in Your Impossible Voice, July 2014.
Mirror Gazing by Warren Motte in Your Impossible Voice, April 2014.
This Is Between Us by Kevin Sampsell in Your Impossible Voice, November 2013.
We The Animals by Justin Torres in The Rumpus, October 2011.
Tom Waits on Tom Waits in The Rumpus, September 2011.
FICTION & POETRY
“Bananas” in Invisible City, 2020.
“Nightfall” republished in SFWP Annual, Vol 1 Selections from the SFWP Quarterly. Edited by Melanie Cordova, Santa Fe Writers Project, October 2017.
“Goodnight, Wolf Girl” in Compose, October 2016.
“Nightfall” in Santa Fe Writers Project, October 2016.
“Reverse Commuters” in Clipped, January 2012.
“Bruised Los Angeles” in Dial, November 2008.
“Colorado Rust” in Adbusters, October 2006.
ESSAYS
“How Much the Heart Can Hold” in perhaps, June 2025.
“Our Neighbors: Urban Animals of New York” in Nightingale, Nature Issue, Jan 2025.
“Esopus: Creative Expression in All Its Forms” in the exhibition catalog for A Lot More Inside: Esopus Magazine, Davis Gallery, Colby College, Feb 2024
“The Rumpus Interview with Anthony Doerr” in The Rumpus, May 2014.
“The Rumpus Interview with Adam Ross” in The Rumpus, September 2012.
“The Rumpus Interview with Colson Whitehead” in The Rumpus, July 2012.
“Radio Ambulante: This Latin American Life” in The Rumpus, June 2012.
“The Rumpus Interview with Tupelo Hassman” in The Rumpus, May 2012.
“The Rumpus Interview with Justin Torres” in The Rumpus, October 2011.
“The Rumpus Interview with Aimee Bender” in The Rumpus, April 2011.
“No One Can Take a Bath For You: Why I Write” in The Rumpus, June 2011.
“Mural Design and Community Education with Susan Cervantes” in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, December 2010.
“Last Book I Loved: Willful Creatures” in The Rumpus, March 2010.